Światło a muzyka
Light and music

Author(s): Katarzyna Naliwajek
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Semantics
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: light; music; metaphor; analogy; sensory landscape; perception; experimental psychology; semiotics; optics; acoustics; cross-modal; cognitive synergy; artificial general intelligence
Summary/Abstract: The article describes different stances on music-light relationships from historical and methodological perspectives and aims at verifying to what extent the hypothesis on the ontic semantic base of cross-modal correspondences is possible to be proven as far as music and light are concerned. The analysis of questions pertaining to metaphor and analogy was deemed as necessary point of departure, as they constitute methods most commonly used to associate both domains and to describe ways of perception of light and music. The historical review of attitudes toward analogy and metaphor is to show various functions and effectiveness of these perceptual mechanisms, which take into account the intuitive element in science, until today. Examples of conceptualisation of both notions by composers, combined with the latest results from experimental psychology and artificial intelligence research, prove that analogies created between light and sound are a natural way the mind functions, supporting complementary perceptual mechanisms and that they can be used for creative solutions of both scientific and artistic composers’ questions.

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